Informed Adaptation to Climate Change
User-centered information products supporting Climate Change Adaptation
The Climate Service Platform, developed jointly within the EU funded I-CISK project, is a highly modular, cloud-based, open-source software solution.
The platform was co-designed and co-developed with seven living labs, representing various fields of application, such as agriculture, forestry, tourism, hydro power, urban planning, and their respective stakeholders. This collaborative approach ensured the development of tailored information products that provide insights into past, current, and future environmental conditions, meeting individual needs.
The services integrate heterogeneous data sources, from large-scale to local, incorporating valuable local knowledge. The platform uses open standards to facilitate data integration and provides data processing, such as downscaling and bias correction of coarse datasets.
The cloud-based backend leverages mainstream open-source components such as kubernetes, Docker, pygeoapi, and geoserver to provide modularity and support the living labs. The user interface (UI) was carefully co-designed and validated with end-users from various stakeholder groups and is built upon Open Pioneer Trails.
Benefits
- Co-designed and co-developed, tailored information products for a variety of end users
- Modular, open source architecture
- Customizable and extendable through open standards
- Scalable Cloud-based design
- Data ingestion with built in processing capabilities
Fields of Application
Climate approved, but widely applicable to different spatiotemporal data sets